On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 14:21 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:43:08 +0200
Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
> Am 26.04.2015 um 12:28 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > Slightly OT: video players can prevent locking, but can they
> > prevent the screen going dark? This happens to me all the time when
> > watching a long video.
I know that mplayer disables dpms settings automatically (and by
default) when playing a video (or even only audio!). I also know that
when watching videos on YouTube (in firefox, using whatever the default
backend player) the dpms settings do *not* get disabled, and the screen
may go into standby in the middle of an interesting scene. :-) I
wouldn't know about other video players (I use only mplayer), but I
guess that they should implement this feature also (if they're worth
their wit anyway).
[...]
Just put "xset -dpms" somewhere in your login (or bootup)
scripts, and
live happily everafter. :-)
Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm mainly interested in Youtube videos,
most of which are quite long courseware sessions on my desktop. I
hesitate to turn off screen blanking entirely but I guess it's something
I'll have to get used to.
poc